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• Tom Ford swaps fashion for film with “Single Man”

  
  Fashion Blog — Authority: 127
  The designer Tom Ford has made a smooth transition to director with “a human soul, the story of a college professor mourning impeccable style in 1960 in California. The ultra-safe Ford never doubted his ability – though he admits that many others. “It’s funny, because everyone was so welcoming,” said ...
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• Every Ceiling…

  
  The Internet Marketing University — Authority: 481
  Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.  Aldous Huxley Every ceiling...
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• Big Brother Is Watching, and He Is You and Me

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 571
  A young female student was banned from her college campus after some input on her Facebook page, found to not be all sweetness and light, concerning a former boyfriend.  While not that strange for some, the nature of the comment combined with her major might have been what sounded the alarm for the school. The story ...
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• Aldous Huxley on Propaganda in Democratic Societies

  
  David Westerfield > Weblog — Authority: 126
  Excerpt from Brave New World: Revisited (1958), Chapter 4 I cannot exhaust the various sectors of our society these words apply. Huxley was prescient in his outlook. “There are two kinds of propaganda — rational propa­ganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those ...
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• Different cultures tend to romanticize each other

  
  Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog — Authority: 430
  “My own policy is to try to be as non-judgmental about another culture as I can while I’m there. You know, “when in Rome…” and all that. But I’m not a complete relativist either. Aldous Huxley once said that when one is living in a developed secular country, one longs to live in a spiritual country ...
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• "All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody’s allowed to..."

  
  poor taste — Authority: 583
  “All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody’s...
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• Swedish sweetness

  
  Words & Eggs — Authority: 125
  t’s finally snowing in Boston. It was 70 degrees here on Thursday. Very anti-Decemberish. So, I’m extremely excited to see the white fluff whisping around outside and even sticking on the ground. I’m about to go celebrate with a fresh mug of hot chocolate and mini-marshmallows. But first, I want to share some ...
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• Timothy Leary Documentary on BBC (2000) -- Timothy Leary Video Archive

  
  Bruce Eisners Vision Thing Blog — Authority: 99
  Links for this Post: Timothy Leary Video Archive and the video embedded above. I discovered an collection of Timothy Leary themed videos available for online viewing or no cost download as part of the Internet Archive. I have seen a good chunk of them before but most are new. You have to dig a bit to get the ...
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• Capture the Culture!

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 587
  Antonio Gramsci Do you ever wonder how we got here? How did the United State of America go from the “Land of the Free” to what it is today? How does one describe America today? “Home of the Entitled?” In the past I’ve covered how the communists infilatrated our social institutions. See here , here ...
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• Our identity at our fingertips?

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 494
  Here’s a challenge to mark the opening of the new Wellcome Collection exhibition Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives . What can you deduce from these handprints about the identities of their authors? If you need to brush up your palm-reading skills, try dipping into the archive of Dr Charlotte Wolff , ...
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• Silence Speaking

  
  Redtree Times — Authority: 128
  Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. —Aldous Huxley ___________________ I’ve been scratching around in the studio for the last few days.  Straightening up a little, putting things in their places. ...
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• Huxley on Snails and Writers

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 501
  PDPhoto.org"Slugs go through life leaving only a fading trail of slime; the snail bequeaths to the world an elaborately convoluted shell. The writer is a snail in the midst of slugs…Snails make excellent fossils; slugs tend to disappear without leaving a trace. Literary fame is a function of fossilizability. Unlike ...
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• The Egg and I

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 128
  You have written any number of things--essays, for instance, or news stories, or features, or short stories, novels, poems, critiques, and all those hundreds of readers reports editors have to write in reference to submitted manuscripts--over a considerable span of time, enough so that you understand intellectually as ...
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• Sunday Open Thread

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 150
  Share on Facebookvar button = document.getElementById(facebook_share_link) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_icon) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_both) || document.getElementById(facebook_share_button);if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share\.php/, ...
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• Two great men died 46 years ago today

  
  MAGICK RIVER — Authority: 424
  ALDOUS HUXLEY (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) , best known as the author of Brave New World (1931) - an incisive study of social caste systems and behavioral engineering. An excellent short biography of this brilliant thinker, essayist and novelist can be read here . JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY ...
  5 weeks ago

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